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A kiss is just a kiss — well, not this one

Who here said that racism in the US was all but dead because a black man was elected President?

Well, think again if you were one of them.

Amazing how a biracial kiss featured in a newspaper sparked so much hatred.

A kiss is just a kiss — well, not this one

By Doug Moore
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/19/2009

ST. LOUIS — Their kiss launched an online frenzy.

This particular kiss wasn't the first for Chris Spencer and his girlfriend, Emilee Murphree. In fact, they are hundreds of smooches into their 21/2- year-old relationship.

But this kiss, captured in a photo April 10 in the Post-Dispatch's Go! section, quickly attracted 350-plus comments on the newspaper's race blog. Specifically, it wasn't the kiss so much as those doing the kissing that created such buzz.
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“No men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it,” Trump said... “‘Is everyone OK’? You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody OK?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.”

Re: A kiss is just a kiss — well, not this one

That (gif image above) was in regards to the interracial relationship itself.

Now, the hate is another story. WTF is wrong with people?

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Re: A kiss is just a kiss — well, not this one

Why is what a bunch of yahoos has to say (anonymously) at a newspaper site more telling than this couple of 2.5 years never noticing this kind of disapproval before? Now the story is that St. Louis is such a racist city but they never felt that kind of "racism" before?

I think just as many black people are against inter-racial relationships as whites are, too. Black women seem to get really pissed off when black guys go for white girls. (See: Waiting to Exhale )

Re: A kiss is just a kiss — well, not this one

Originally Posted by don'ttreadonme

Why is what a bunch of yahoos has to say (anonymously) at a newspaper site more telling than this couple of 2.5 years never noticing this kind of disapproval before? Now the story is that St. Louis is such a racist city but they never felt that kind of "racism" before?

I think just as many black people are against inter-racial relationships as whites are, too. Black women seem to get really pissed off when black guys go for white girls. (See: Waiting to Exhale )

To me personally, interracial relationships are a non-issue, too.

Very good post.

You're right, it goes both ways, and when it's anonymous, there is a tendency to lose all manners. I can't help but think, though, that a lot of those feelings are underlying.

“No men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it,” Trump said... “‘Is everyone OK’? You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody OK?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.”